> There's
supposed to be an extensibility workshop in September at one of the F2Fs where
namespaces in general will be hashed out - I plan to be monitoring that one
carefully, as I suspect that there will be a move to "fix" namespaces
in a way that will have long term negative repercussions for the XML community.

Let's approach this
positively. XML namespaces are a pretty awful piece of design. Perhaps
this is an opportunity to revisit the requirement and do something a bit more
elegant.